Who is the ‘crazy American’ behind Svalbardi’s HK$950 iceberg water in Hong...
The man behind the HK$950 bottles of Arctic glacier water stripped from a Hong Kong supermarket’s shelves has defended the product and says he hopes to sell 100,000 bottles a year. Last week, Svalbardi...
View ArticleTreat hepatitis B and you cut the likelihood of developing liver cancer, HKU...
Timely treatment of hepatitis B can effectively reduce the likelihood of liver cancer, University of Hong Kong researchers have found. Their citywide study reviewed drug prescriptions for over 26,000...
View Article14 out of 15 children’s scooter models contain cancer-related chemical: Hong...
More than half of children’s scooters among 15 brands in the city do not meet toy safety standards, while all but one contain substances linked to cancer, a test by the Hong Kong Consumer Council has...
View ArticleRelaxed rules to allow gay men in Hong Kong to donate blood
Men who have not had sex with other men in the past 12 months will be able to donate blood starting from late this month, the Hong Kong Red Cross has announced. The new donation rules will officially...
View ArticleRecyclers in Hong Kong brace for full impact of temporary ban on wastepaper...
Hong Kong recyclers are bracing for the full impact of a temporary halt in wastepaper collection by local exporters from Friday. The business association behind the industrial action hoped the pain...
View ArticleDrive begins to cut salt in Hong Kong pupils’ lunches by half in a decade
Health authorities have launched a voluntary drive to reduce salt levels in Hong Kong pupils’ lunches by half in a decade, starting with 13 suppliers on board to provide lower-sodium food to 76 per...
View ArticleHong Kong waste paper firms go on strike as new mainland rules threaten their...
Hong Kong’s waste paper exporters warned of a wave of business closures in the next few months as they began a week-long strike on Friday over import restrictions in mainland China that have crippled...
View ArticleGreen groups call for less use of paper, amid Hong Kong collection strike
Green groups have called on Hongkongers to use less paper and store waste paper at offices or homes as part of measures to address a week-long halt in waste paper collection. The call came as exporters...
View ArticleSingapore operator oBike rides into Hong Kong with 1,000 shared bicycles
Singapore-based bicycle-sharing operator oBike rode into Hong Kong on Friday with 1,000 bikes ready to go across the suburban New Territories and Lantau Island. It is the first overseas player to...
View ArticleHongkongers warned to stay out of sun as mercury hits 35 degrees Celsius and...
Hong Kong sweltered under scorching hot temperatures and battled poor air quality on Saturday with areas all around the city recording unhealthy pollution levels. By late afternoon, most areas around...
View ArticleHKU duo want to look at air quality ‘down to the individual street’ with...
Live in Kowloon but want to check on the air quality in Tai O before your hike tomorrow morning? Two University of Hong Kong academics hope to make that possible, as they work on a HK$50 million big...
View ArticleMan dies, three others collapse at Hong Kong stop of Road to Ultra electronic...
Police are investigating whether drugs were involved in the death of a man, 27, and the collapse of three others at the Hong Kong stop of electronic music festival Road to Ultra in West Kowloon. The...
View ArticleCardboard collectors struggle as prices fall amid strike by waste paper...
Amid a week-long strike by Hong Kong’s waste paper exporters, an 89-year-old grandmother, who has collected used cardboard in Causeway Bay for years, continued with her daily “job” on Saturday as she...
View Article‘Heart of brain’ breakthrough may aid treatment of disorders, Hong Kong...
Hong Kong scientists have made a breakthrough in their four-year research on the connectivity of brain functions and how this may help in the early diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases. A team of...
View ArticleLet’s have a hi-tech solution to recycling
Many of our streets have been buried in paper and plastic waste in the past week. Barges bound for the mainland are filled to the brim with bushels of scrap newspapers and cardboard with nowhere to go....
View ArticleNot enough water and shade at West Kowloon concert that sent four to...
Revellers of an annual Hong Kong electronic music festival that saw four sent to hospital, including one who died, claimed the concert promoter did a poor job providing water and shade at the event to...
View ArticleIt’s official: Hong Kong sweltered through record-breaking summer
If you felt like it was abnormally hot and wet in Hong Kong last month, you were right: the city sweltered through its hottest day on record and experienced 13 per cent more rain than usual thanks in...
View ArticlePolice called after sample of tissue from woman’s breast goes missing from...
A sample of tissue from a woman’s breast has gone missing from North District Hospital in Sheung Shui, prompting the facility to report the incident to police. The 59-year-old woman underwent a...
View ArticleMonitoring standards for Hong Kong’s drinking water to go beyond WHO levels,...
Hong Kong has launched a comprehensive safety overhaul of its drinking water and is seeking to adopt standards beyond guidelines set by the World Health Organisation after learning a bitter lesson from...
View ArticleLawmaker hits out at government’s tainted water action plan
The government’s action plan for enhancing drinking water safety in Hong Kong may be well-intended but it fails to tackle head-on the root of the tainted water scandal that hit the city two years ago,...
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